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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...
PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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Most effective KPIs based on business need

As of today, Order HUB’s Workspace allows for the creation of personalised dashboard workspaces and reports, based on the two KPIS of purchase orders and sales orders, that can only be consulted online and targeted up to 30 days before. The object...
8 months ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Future consideration

API to update Order Service Document status to null

Current Process: When an order is synchronized, the document status is set to null. Once the order is archived, its status in OS changes to archived. Issue: When an order is restored to Sterling from OS, and if Sterling is not integrated with OS f...
21 days ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Submitted

Enable SAPSTAT document tracking direction

For client Electrolux, we received a request to change the SAPSTAT Inflight tracking direction from Outbound to Inbound. I reviewed the rules, and it is already configured as Inbound under the SAPSTAT eval ruleset SendPod Action. However, the Infl...
2 months ago in Sterling B2B Integration SaaS / Inflight 1 Submitted

Update outdated Struts jars in product

Current version of Struts v2.5.33 included on Sterling Order Management product is obsolete and not supported any more. It contains known critical security vulnerability (fileUpload), but also might contain other ones which are not revealed. It pu...
about 1 month ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0

Target node alternate communication paths not retried when connected via Sterling Secure Proxy.

There appears to be a design flaw within CD/U when communicating via SSP and target CD node not being reachable via primary path, CD/U initial SSL handshake times out and connection to target CD node not retried by CD/U via ALT.COMM path(s).
3 months ago in Sterling Connect:Direct / Other 7 Planned for future release

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 2nd. The first is SFG-I-325 Customer was processing a high volume of transactions via filegateway when their environment experienced a network issue.Node 1 had its communication impacted with node 2. Communica...
11 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Other 3 Functionality already exists

SFG Resiliency

There are 2 RFEs related. This is the 1st. The second is SFG-I-326 Customer was processing a high volume of transactions via filegateway when their environment experienced a network issue.Node 1 had its communication impacted with node 2. Communic...
11 months ago in Sterling File Gateway / Performance 3 Functionality already exists
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Transformation Extender to provide Map Coverage in a similar way Sonar provides code coverage.

We would like to have a tool, similar to the code coverage tools that they have for traditional code, available for ITX maps. Requirements: This functionality must be invokable both through the graphical map design tooling and available in ru...
over 6 years ago in Sterling Transformation Extender / WTX Maps & Type Trees 2 Not under consideration

Support OIDC/Oauth 2.0 in SSP

Modern authentication requirements need support for OIDC/Oauth 2.0 alongside the existing SAML 2.0 support. Please extend SSP to provide this flavor of access as well.
9 months ago in Sterling Secure Proxy / Security 0 Submitted

Add metadata parameters to S3 object storage GET and PUT

The S3 APIs allow for adding headers to the bucket object GET and PUT to include user metadata (see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/UsingMetadata.html). Adding these as parameters passed to and from the AWS S3 Client Service ...
9 months ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 1 Future consideration